According to theHollywood Reporter, the lawsuit alleges that visually impaired users do not have equal access to the website’s products and services.

The class named in the lawsuit is “all legally blind individuals in the United States who have attempted to access Beyonce.com and as a result have been denied access to the enjoyment of goods and services offered by Beyonce.com, during the relevant statutory period.”

The lawsuit regarding Beyonce.com is not the only lawsuit that has been filed against website owners who were non-compliant with the ADA. As we mentioned in an earlierblog article, more than 240 class action lawsuits have been filed against businesses for ADA non-compliance based on inadequate website accessibility (according to law360.com).

What Can You Do to Ensure Your Website Is ADA Compliant?

Some of suggested features include:

At Web Perseverance, we use a website plug-in that increases website accessibility for disabled web viewers. Web Perseverance is an internet marketing company. You can see the plugin logo on this site. It looks like the wheelchair handicap logo and is located at the bottom left of your screen. Click on it, and it will display various boxes with features that help make our site more user friendly for disabled viewers.

A keyboard key

Bigger cursor

Increased contrast

Larger text

Desaturate (the button removes color from graphics and images)

Highlight links

Legible fonts

Read page (audio software button that reads the words in the navigation, content text and tag information on the page)